Editing Veleda (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Velleda.jpg|thumb|''Velleda'', as imagined in a 19th-century painting by Charles Voillemot.]]
In her 1795 novel ''Velleda, ein Zauberroman'' (Velleda, a Magic Novel), [[Benedikte Naubert]] conflated the lives of two contemporaries, [[Boudica]] and Veleda, whom she romanticized as Boadicea and Velleda. In Naubert's work, Velleda is portrayed as a sorceress who offers Boadicea's daughters access to immortality in the magical world of Germanic goddesses, while Boadicea draws her daughters back to the real world. A large extract from Naubert's novel appeared in Shawn C. Jarvis and Jeannine Blackwell's ''The Queen's Mirror'', as did Amalie von Helwig's 1814 story "Die Symbole" (The Symbols), in which she was called Welleda.<ref>Shawn C. Jarvis and Jeannine Blackwell (eds. and trans.), ''The Queen's Mirror. Fairy Tales by German Women, 1780–1900'', pp. 33–74, 117–125. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. {{ISBN|0-8032-6181-0}}</ref> The forms "Velleda" and "Welleda" appear to be attempts to render the name in modern German (much as [[Richard Wagner]] rendered [[Odin]] or [[Wōden]] as Wotan in his ''Ring'' cycle).

Other 19th-century works incorporating Veleda/Velleda/Welleda included [[Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué]]'s 1818 novel, ''Welleda und Gemma''; [[Eduard Sobolewski]]'s 1835 opera ''Velleda''; E.H. Maindron's 1843–44 marble sculpture ''Velleda''; Franz Sigret's drawing ''Veleda, Prophetess of the Bructeri'', and [[Paul Dukas]]' cantata ''Velléda''.

More recently, Veleda's story was fictionalized by [[Poul Anderson]] in ''Star of the Sea'' (1991), and by [[Lindsey Davis]] in ''[[The Iron Hand of Mars]]'' (1992) and ''[[Saturnalia (Davis novel)|Saturnalia]]'' (2007). Veleda is also referenced as a prophetess turned saint/goddess in ''The Veil of Years'' (2001) by L. Warren Douglas.  She is also a character in ''The Dragon Lord'' (1979), by [[David Drake]].

On November 5, 1872, [[Paul-Pierre Henry|Paul Henry]] of Paris discovered an asteroid which was named [[126 Velleda]] in honor of Veleda.

The book series Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by [[Tad Williams]] features a mysterious and powerful seeress named Valada Geloë, likely inspired by Veleda.